Usually, bands tend to pick a certain lane when they're dealing in a particular sound. Sure, we see tons of instances where combinations of different styles are brought together for a performance that can show us what all can still be done even in the face of such experimentation and innovation throughout the underground. On occasion, we get an act that's able to encapsulate a genre almost in its entirety. Such mastery is not a common sight, so to witness one is to come across a truly exceptional performance. To close out a trilogy of albums, Celestial Seasons pulls off just that for doom metal.
The sheer diversity of doom metal is something that demands respect for all the different emotions and several approaches that can be made. There are tons of different styles that any of us can list off the very top of our heads along with bands that have become all but attached to the very DNA of the style in question. When Celestial Season penned "Mysterium III", it's clear that nothing was off the table for these eight tracks. A dramatic display of knowledge for all that doom metal has to offer from funeral doom to the classic veins to death-doom and everything in-between, this is what it means to be absolutely uncompromising in your particular craft. Where many others can only ever hope to dip their toes in more than one style, Celestial Season held nothing back with its instrumentation seemingly second to none throughout the vast underground with every song having an incredibly specific set of flavors that are well and truly their own with "Mysterium III" taking a life of its own that is simply bewildering to bear witness to. From the raw evocative factor to the undeniable heaviness that has spectacular range, there's more within any one of these eights tracks than what some are able to put into entire albums. I know not what went on in what is a clearly lengthy history for Celestial Season, but to witness "Mysterium III" is a pleasure like few others.
To have stumbled across this piece is to stumble across immense treasure whose quality is not to be denied in the slightest. Where many might have taken tentative steps in similar pursuits, Celestial Season absolutely flies. "Mysterium III" sees the "Mysterium" trilogy close on a supreme note the likes of which we cannot deny for so much as a moment. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some catching up to do between me and Celestial Season.
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